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* Mr. Burge Draws The Line (6-23-26)
* 'Improving on Democracy' (6-17-26)
* People Leak To People Who Are Fun (6-11-26)
* Why Does Australia Produce So Many Great Journalists? (6-11-26)
* Steve Wynn and the Press: Power, Litigation, and the Contest Over Las Vegas (6-3-26)
* Sheldon Adelson and the Journalists (6-3-26)
* The Vigilant Animal: Thinkers Who Reject the Myth of Human Gullibility (6-2-26)
* The Cost of Refusing the Misunderstanding Myth (6-2-26)
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* The Norm Explainers (6-2-26)
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* San Diego - The Quiet Republic (5-27-26)
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I Really Thought I Could Change The World With My Little Songs (4-29-22)
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Ideology of Anti-populism & the Administrative State
In 2021, Stephen Turner wrote an essay called Ideology of Anti-populism & the Administrative State:
The people, the state, and expertise form an unstable triad, and relating the three in a coherent way, either institutionally or theoretically, is ultimately not possible. Finding a way of dealing with these relations nevertheless is a problem that needs to be solved and re-solved…
Harvey Mansfield defined populism, by which he meant populism as a political idea, as the belief in the virtue of the people. ‘A populist let us say is a democrat who is satisfied with his own and with the people’s virtue’…
Progressivism was to be the alliance of experts and an aroused ‘people’ (Turner, 1996). And this followed an emerging practice of social movements based on expertise, notably the prohibition movement, which employed the techniques presently associated with climate science under the heading alcohol science (Okrent, 2010; Turner, 2001, 2014), through this and other movements, became the third leg in the modem triad. And anti-populism came to take the form of a set of assertions about expertise and governance.
The anti-populist, who is, unlike the populist, not satisfied with the people’s virtue, faces a fundamental problem: to deny populism is to deny democracy, or a founding element of the democratic idea, that the people should be, and are the best, governors of themselves. Thus anti-populism, if it pretends to be democratic, cannot overtly deny the myth of the people. But the need for rulers and for the justification of their rule creates an opportunity to redefine the democratic idea, to create an appropriate counter-myth that enables the people to have a place, but not to rule.
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5 empowering ways to boost your vaginal confidence (4-24-20)
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Why Do Entrepreneurs Embrace Woo-Woo Ideas? (4-19-22)
00:00 Most people have a positive outlook on life
04:00 Suicide catalyst Teal Swan, https://gizmodo.com/weve-launched-an-investigative-podcast-about-a-controve-1826416613
16:40 Elliott Blatt joins
18:00 I pulled off my first pullups in 34 years
21:30 How do you live without purpose? Elliott’s journey of discovery
26:30 Elliott’s magic mushroom community
30:00 Finding the right distance, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=236YtgmB3zM
57:00 Life group, https://www.theringer.com/2022/3/3/22956353/fatherhood-cancer-jonathan-tjarks
1:00:30 Friendships – One Part of Your Life You Shouldn’t Optimize, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/17/opinion/culture/making-friends-covid.html
1:14:40 The Libs of Tik Tok, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/19/libs-of-tiktok-right-wing-media/
1:16:00 The ‘Libs of Tik Tok’ Exposé Is Part of a New Trend: Shaming Private Citizens who Dissent, https://www.newsweek.com/libs-tik-tok-expose-part-new-trend-shaming-private-citizens-who-dissent-opinion-1699120
1:18:00 Why Taylor Lorenz’s Libs of TikTok Expose Has Outraged Conservatives, https://www.newsweek.com/why-taylor-lorenz-libs-tiktok-expose-has-outraged-conservatives-1698841
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Teal Swan – The Suicide Catalyst (4-13-22)
00:00 I want to go where love is
04:20 The DOWNFALL of KATI MORTON || Youtube’s Corrupt Therapist, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghPBRx2yxy8
08:45 The Dark Origin Story of Internet Spiritual Guru Teal Swan, https://gizmodo.com/the-dark-origin-story-of-internet-spiritual-guru-teal-s-1826598620
14:00 MILENNIAL WOES IS INNOCENT!, https://www.bitchute.com/video/tfLm6dLcMQmu/
17:00 Millenial Woes March 28, https://odysee.com/@millennialwoes:4/Gram202213:b
34:00 Elliott Blatt joins
39:00 Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=121464
44:00 The best erotic slasher film I’ve seen, https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/x_2022
48:00 Are you a good friend to you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZAFDr8Er80
1:41:40 Baked Alaska versus the world, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06KIbsYHSg4
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Elon Musk launches hostile bid for Twitter (4-14-22)
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Checking Out Of The National Project
Time: 4 Ways That the Pandemic Changed How We See Ourselves
Time: It’s Harder Than Ever to Care About Anything
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Elite v Popular Discourse on Crime & Race & Subway shooter (4-13-22)
00:00 Brooklyn shooting suspect Frank James facing terror-related charges after calling Crime Stoppers on himself, https://nypost.com/2022/04/13/brooklyn-shooting-suspect-frank-james-in-police-custody/
35:00 Elliott Blatt joins
37:30 Ethan Ralph’s upcoming corn harvest
41:00 With Mr Metokurs health problems, when he appears he’s like Elvis
49:00 Maybe Elliott should postpone doing his taxes and go out and enable an alcoholic who might then care about him
1:20:00 Explaining away crime: The race narrative in American sociology and ethical theory by Stephen Turner, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=143297
1:45:00 What’s wrong with social science? https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/09/11/whats-wrong-with-social-science-and-how-to-fix-it/
1:50:00 The Replication Crisis: Crash Course Statistics, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBzEGSm23y8
2:23:00 Trump Poses a Test Democracy Is Failing, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/13/opinion/trump-democracy-decline-fall.html
2:27:00 John Hinckley Jr, who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan in 1981, will play SOLD-OUT show in Brooklyn this summer after serving 35 years in psychiatric hospital, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10715141/amp/Man-tried-assassinate-Ronald-Reagan-1981-play-sold-concert-Brooklyn-summer.html